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[[File:By 1977.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A Message Tract printed before | [[File:By 1977.jpg|right|250px|thumb|A now '''out of print''' Message Tract printed before 1977, the year William Branham's followers thought the world would end.]] | ||
[[ William Branham]] believed that the world would end in 1977. | [[ William Branham]] believed that the world would end in 1977. | ||
==Prediction vs. [[Prophecy]] | =Some interesting things about his prediction= | ||
There are a number of curious things about William Branham's 1977 prediction: | |||
*On July 4, 1954, the healing evangelist, [[A.A. Allen's prophecy of the destruction of the United States|A.A. Allen had a vision about the destruction of America]] which he related publicly. | |||
*In 1954, William Branham states on several occasions that a majority of scientists predicted that the world would be destroyed within 10 years. | |||
*Months later, William Branham '''first tells of his prediction/vision''' in 1933 that [[America in Ashes|the US would be destroyed and that it would take place by 1977]]. | |||
Was this simply another case of William Branham [[Plagiarism|plagiarizing]] someone else's teaching? | |||
=Prediction vs. [[Prophecy]]= | |||
William Branham said "I predict (I do not prophesy)". | William Branham said "I predict (I do not prophesy)". | ||
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The ensuing failure of William Branham's prediction resulted in a number of his followers leaving [[The Message|the message]]. | The ensuing failure of William Branham's prediction resulted in a number of his followers leaving [[The Message|the message]]. | ||
On the flip side, William Branham also said the following about his 1977 "prediction" (see quotes below): | |||
*It was made with "divine inspiration". | |||
*He told people - "Don't miss it!" | |||
*God would have to come before the year 2000 or "there'll be no flesh saved". | |||
*If the world didn't end by 1977, at the very least "this great nation is going to strike a war that's going to blow it to bits". | |||
==What William Branham said about 1977== | ==What William Branham said about 1977== | ||
'''''I heard a radio broadcast recently''', where the majority of the great scientists of the world, give the world '''ten years before total annihilation'''. Ten more years, now, that's just guesswork.<ref>William Branham, 54-0301, The Angel Of The Covenant, para. 5</ref> | |||
''Then I heard on the radio the other day that the biggest part of '''scientists of the world, give the world ten years to total annihilation'''. That's not Scripturally speaking; that's scientifically speaking: Ten years for total annihilation. That won't contradict the Bible, just what the Bible said. The heavens and the earth will be on fire. Just sweep over these deserts and everything. There will be nothing left.<ref>William Branham, 54-0307A, The End Time, para. 37</ref> | |||
''And, remember, I predict that before the '''great total annihilation''', which I don't say the Lord told me this, but I believe there'll be something happen either between now or at that time in '77. It may come…?… at this hour. But between now and '77, I predict that either a great destruction or a total annihilation of the entire earth, between now and '77; I predicted it in 1933.<ref>William Branham, 56-0513, Teaching On Moses, para. 21</ref> | |||
''Then I seen the United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place. It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... '''That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977."''') Upon this prediction, I base, because of the onrushing slaught that's coming now, how fast that it was moving, how long it'll take till this nation meets its place.<Ref>CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113</Ref> | ''Then I seen the United States as one smoldering, burnt-over place. It will be near the end. (Then I've got in parenthesis: "I predict that this will take place." Now, remember, the Lord ne... '''That's what the Lord showed, but "I predict this will take place before 1977."''') Upon this prediction, I base, because of the onrushing slaught that's coming now, how fast that it was moving, how long it'll take till this nation meets its place.<Ref>CONDEMNATION.BY.REPRESENTATION_ JEFF.IN V-2 N-13 SUNDAY_ 60-1113</Ref> | ||
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''And at 1906 the Laodicean church age set in, and I don't know when it'll end, but '''I predict it'll be done by 1977'''. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that five of those things has (out of the seven)--has already taken place about...<Ref>THE.EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205</Ref> | ''And at 1906 the Laodicean church age set in, and I don't know when it'll end, but '''I predict it'll be done by 1977'''. I predict, not the Lord told me, but I predict it according to a vision that was showed me some years ago, that five of those things has (out of the seven)--has already taken place about...<Ref>THE.EPHESIAN.CHURCH.AGE_ JEFF.IN ROJC 131-183 MONDAY_ 60-1205</Ref> | ||
And I said, "I seen, looked like there was stumps burning; rocks, blowed out; and the whole United States just looked bare, laying like that, as far as I could see where I was standing." And I said, "I predict, according to the way time is moving, it'll be sometime between this year '33 and '77." And it'll have to squeeze awful hard to get through there.<ref>William Branham, 60-1208, The Thyatirean Church Age, para. 233</ref> | |||